Dubliner Alan Maxwell has cycled from home to Paris for the Euros and raised thousands for charity, but as he arrived in the French capital he was attacked by men looking to rob him. Above, shortly before he set out.
An Irish soccer fan had to be saved by local women when he was attacked in Paris for the Euros having just arrived there on his bike.
The fan, 34-year-old Alan Maxwell, rode about 600km from his native Dublin to the French capital for two cancer charities, raising €5,000.
He took up the challenge of his Euros sportive after his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
But no sooner had he arrived at his destination than he was attached by a group of men apparently looking to rob his bike.
He’s set out from Dublin to cycling ‘from the pub to Paris’ and arrived last Monday week, June 13th, the day Ireland played their opening game of the Euros against Sweden.
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"When I arrived in Paris, two lads jumped me at the Gare du Nord and tried to rob my bike off me, after all that,” he told the Irish Independent.
He said he was punched in the side of the face while cycling down the street.
But a group of local women working on nearby market stalls came to his aid just before he was to be relieved of his bike and probably everything else he had on him.
“They grabbed my bike for me. Another lad came running up behind and said 'Hey man, you dropped your phone'.
"It had fallen out of my pocket when I was getting kicked on the ground. I cycled all that distance and that was the reward that I got."
Alan raised his funds for Breast Cancer Ireland and ARC cancer support.
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